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Dominant Serena Williams takes WTA Finals title

Sarah Ebner

October 27 2014, 12:01am, The Times

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Serena Williams took spectacular revenge on Simona Halep to win her third successive WTA Finals title in Singapore, racing to a dominant, straight-sets victory over the Romanian who had beaten her so comprehensively in the group stage four days earlier.

Williams, who overcame Halep 6-3, 6-0, has now won the WTA’s end-of-season showpiece event five times. The match was the most one-sided in the competition’s finale since Kim Clijsters beat Amélie Mauresmo 6-2, 6-0 in 2003, and the result means the 33-year-old American will end the year as world No 1 for a fourth time.

Williams had pulled out of her previous two tournaments because of illness and a knee injury, and suffered her heaviest defeat since 1998 when she lost 6-0, 6-2 to Halep…